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TIL The Leaning Tower of Pisa was once a Nazi observation post. The allies did not air strike it because of its beauty.

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j6A5R TIL that the Doors’ second manager, Danny Sugerman, began working with the Doors when he was just 12 years old, by answering their fan mail. Following the death of Jim Morrison in 1971, Sugerman replaced the original Doors’ manager, Bill Siddons, at just age 17.
QyWk TIL that the Firefly TV show theme song “The Ballad Of Serenity” was used by STS-130 Space shuttle astronaut Robert L. Behnken and the other crew members as a wake up song on February 12, 2010
D07e TIL, “No one in the U.S. has died from a black widow spider bite in over 10 years.”
VmB4 TIL that it would take less than a year for the average person to walk around the earth.
8eNwK TIL recording artist Terence Trent D’Arby was a lightweight champ earned who earned an invitation to boxing school in the U.S. Army, enlisted and served his country for three years in Oklahoma and West Germany, but was dishonorably discharged in 1983 for going AWOL.